April 15, 2024
How did you decide to become a math major?
The only subject that I am both good at and share a passion for. Easy choice.
Do you have any special story to tell that reflects your experience as a math major?
I think math has more uses to make our life better than many people would think. Currently I am modeling a tourism chain in China to suggest better, more environmental-friendly, and more beneficial tourism commerce. This kind of hands-on experience that transforms math into useful tools socially excites me.
What are your aspirations?
Probably pure math. But I do not hesitate to apply math to the real world. The reason for pure math is that I think pure math tends to be a lot neater and more elegant than applied ones. It has beautiful beautiful theorems, constructions, and abstractions. But a lot of applied things that I have tried involve dry computations, evaluations of integrals, and long messy equations. My taste is to stop after giving the equation. I don't really care about the ways to solve that equation as long as, for example, that I have showed that it is solvable.
What are you excited about doing after graduation? (If you know)
Math PhD would be ideal. Alternatively if I receive great offer from finance companies I will also consider to do a PhD later in my life.
